Anil Somayaji's Home Page

Hello! I am an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. I am also Associate Director of the Carleton Computer Security Lab, and I am part of Carleton's Digital Security Group.

I will not be teaching in Winter 2009 as I will be on parental leave. Also, I will be on sabbatical for the 2009-2010 academic year.

In Fall 2008, I taught teaching COMP 4000/5102 (Distributed Operating Systems) and COMP 1501 (Introduction to Computer Game Design) in colloration with Michel Barbeau. In past terms I have also taught COMP 3000 (Operating Systems) and graduate seminars in COMP 5900W (Intrusion Detection) and Biological Approaches to Computer Security.

I am broadly interested in the areas of computer security, operating systems, artificial life, and complex adaptive systems. For more information on my research, please refer to these pages:

• My publications
  
• Evolving Insight, my research-related blog
• The Carleton Computer Security Lab
• Process Homeostasis (pH) (now maintained by Mario Van Velzen)

I am currently formally advising the following students:

• Carson Brown
• Alex Cowperthwaite
• Blair Foster
• Abdulrahman Hijazi
• Mu Li
• Yiru Li
• Luc des trois Maisons
• Mohammad Nikseresht (co-advised with Anil Maheshwari)
• Terri Oda
• Preeti Raman
• Mario Van Velzen

Prospective Students: At this time I have a large number of graduate students under my supervision; thus, currently I am not planning on taking on any new students. If you feel you are truly exceptional, feel free to try and make a case to me. After all, I am always looking for students who are passionate about ideas and research, are interested in computer security and/or complex adaptive systems, and are willing to work hard exploring "crazy" ideas. But given my finite supply of time and money, though, don't be surprised when I say no. My apologies in advance.

My email address is at the bottom of this page - this is the best way to contact me.  My mailing address, phone number, and my GPG/PGP public key (to verify my emails or send me confidential information) are on this page.

Thanks for stopping by!

--Anil